Round 52 Changes

General

• Tick Service 1.1: a bunch of technical changes will be tested (and changed) during the round. Expect things to get buggy and spicy as I try new features to reduce/remove frozen ticks (or at least reduce the damage they cause).
• Casualties Calculator 1.1: big under the hood changes.
• All old stats and imps (before Stats 2.0 and Imps 2.0) have been permanently deleted forever.

Factions

• Barbarian:
  • Gains +50% population.
• Cult:
  • Cannot explore.
• Firewalker:
  • Fire Sprite replaced with Magma Fragment: 4/0 — cannot be trained, does not count as population, burns 0.10 peasants on attack, suffers 100% casualties, and has 4% attrition.
  • Flame Wolf changed from 0/3 for 250 gold to 0/6 for 680 gold.
• Growth:
  • Ulcer cost increased from 150 to 160 food.
  • Cyst cost changed from 160 to 170 food.
• Halfling:
  • Pop bonus changed from +30% to +50%.
  • Staff Master OP from SPA changed from +0.85 per 1 SPA to +1 per 1 SPA.
• Icekin:
  • Ice Beast changed from +2 to +1 if ruled by a Commander.
• Norse:
  • Units:
    • Warrior: 4/4 — 300 gold, 10 ore, 10 lumber — dies into 1 champion on successful invasions or fending off.
    • Berserker: 6/4 — 1 Warrior, 80 ore, 40 lumber — dies into 1 champion on successful invasions or fending off, +75% casualties suffered, incurs more casualties for invaders on defense.
    • Homeguard: 0/10 — 1 champion — immortal, no draftee required to train.
    • Einherjar: 12/8 — 1 champion — immortal, no draftee required to train, each unit killed by Einherjar becomes 1 champion (only works against units with the Living attribute, reduced conversions perk applies).
• Sylvan
  • Construction only costs mana.
  • Cannot train spies, wizards, or archmages.
  • Perks:
    • No gold production.
    • Mana counts as 6 improvement points.
    • Improvements increase by 0.06% per tick.
    • 30 mana per barren acre of forest (down from 40).
    • Removed jobs from barren forest.
    • No drafting.
    • Peasants (“pixies”) produce 0.01 lumber/tick.
    • -80% lumber production.
  • Units:
    • Leshy: 4/0 — 8 mana, 1 lumber — +2 OP if recently invaded, no draftee required to train, dies into 1 lumber, count as 1/2 spy, immortal spy.
    • Sprite: 0/4 — 6 mana, 1 lumber — no draftee required to train, dies into 1 lumber.
    • Dryad: 0/8 — 24 mana, 1 lumber — no draftee required to train, counts as 1/3 wizard on offense and 1/4 wizard on defense, immortal as wizard, dies into 1 lumber.
    • Spriggan: 14/8 — 48 mana, 1 lumber — no draftee required to train, +5 OP if recently invaded, +3 DP if recently invaded, dies into 1 lumber.
• Void:
  • Cannot train archmages.
  • Spy and wizard cost changed from 1,000 mana to 200 mana.
  • Wizards are immortal.
  • Peasants (“particles”) produce 0.2 mana/tick.

Buildings

• New — Institute (Wood Elf only): increases improvements by 4% for every 1% (max +100%).
• Plantation (Sylvan only): disabled.
• New — Spring (Sylvan only): increases improvements interest by 12% for every 1% (max +120%).
• New — Thicket (Sylvan only): increases improvements by 6% for ever 1% (max +120%).

Improvements

• New — Commerce (Wood Elf variant): increases gold production and improves exchange sell rates.
• Prism (Void only):
  • Population perk changed from 100% max with 100,000 coefficient to 100% max with 20,000 coefficient.
  • Population growth perk changed from 50% max with 50,000 coefficient to 10,000% max with 10,000 coefficient.
• Sylvan unique setup:
  • Affinity: increases mana production (60/4000).
  • Awareness: increases spy strength, XP generation, and XP gains (60/6000, 40/6000, 60/4000).
  • Bloom: increases lumber and food production (60/6000, 40/6000).
  • Nurture: reduces rezoning costs, increases land generated (-40/6000, 20/4000).
  • Rage: increases offensive power, decreases target’s defensive power (20/6000, 40/8000).
  • Roaming: increases population (20/4000).
  • Tranquillity: increases defensive power, increases population growth (60/8000, 60/6000).

Spells

• Tiranthael’s Justice changed from 3x cost and 1% Abominations killed to 5x cost and 0.75% Abominations killed.

Spy Ops

• No changes